Quotes About Esperanto

#1. On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

Andrew Dalby

#2. General amnesty, weekly carnival with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free rent, free sex and a free lay church in a free lay state.

James Joyce

#3. It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Fredrik Bajer

#4. I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

#5. What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

Arika Okrent

#6. My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers.

Bill Bryson

#8. The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

Joe Hill

#9. In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

John Lanchester

#10. Ultimately Zamenhof's language [Esperanto] was and is more than a proposed solution to the language problem: it is an attempt to confront the spirit of inequality, of intolerance, of hatred that is tearing apart our beautiful world.

Humphrey Tonkin

#11. Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Richard Bach

#12. Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

George Soros

#13. I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Melanie Rawn

#14. When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy

#15. The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former.

Kate Atkinson

#16. Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Nick Hornby

#17. How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

Kate Atkinson

#18. Do all to change your environment; don't allow your environment to change you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Felix Dennis

#20. No point in dipping death into lemon curd.

Susan Ornbratt

#21. To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James

#22. What goes around comes back around.

Beyonce Knowles

#23. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving

Amy Carmichael